Tuesday 12/16/14 England vs. Sri Lanka

After work and lunch most of the regular volunteers and all of the 2-week special group traveled into Colombo for the England vs. Sri Lanka Cricket game. It was the last game of a seven game tournament type thing. We spent pretty much the whole game chatting with a guy next to us as he explained all of the rules. Cricket is an incredible complex game with a million rules/regulations and one game can actually last days. The atmosphere was awesome and made me really miss college football/college sporting events in general. Apparently, cricket is usually a very sophisticated game, people dress up very nice and the crowd is usually very quiet. Not here. Sri Lanka is so proud of their team because they are ridiculously good. Sri Lanka had already won the series by a lot. The crowd was CRAZY and I loved it. There were three Sri Lankan players that were retiring after this game, so it was a big deal and there wasn't an empty seat in the place. When we were walking in, people had actually broken one of the metal poles of fencing and were climbing through in order to see it. I would be really curious to go to a game in Europe and see how different it is. Overall, a super cool, unique experience.